Repair and Renovation of Faculty Laboratory Facilities at a Comprehensive Public University

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该奖项支持一个翻新项目，为一所综合性公立大学的化学和物理学院研究人员使用的一个有50年历史的实验室设施提供关键的维修和翻新。此次改造将把相关的研究领域和专业合并为两个研究中心，一个致力于分析和法医化学，另一个致力于材料研究。实验室设备和仪器也将战略性地集中在中心，以便教师和学生在工作中最可能使用它们。每个研究中心将在改造期间通过合并较小的研究实验室和其他房间来组装。改造还将为目前的教师研究提供安全、充足的设施，将改善新研究人员的招聘，并将提供指导和整合学生实习生的机会。该大学的大部分服务区域包括密西西比三角洲和密苏里州“布希尔”的农村经济萧条地区，在那里，高于平均水平的贫困和失业率，加上地理上的孤立，限制了获得教育和经济稳定的机会。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This award supports a renovation project to provide critical repairs and renovations to a 50-year old laboratory facility utilized by Chemistry and Physics faculty researchers at a comprehensive, public university. The renovation will combine related research areas and specializations into two research centers within the department, one devoted to analytical and forensic chemistry and one devoted to materials research. Laboratory equipment and instrumentation will also be grouped together strategically in the centers so that they are readily available to the faculty and students most likely to use them in their work. Each research center will be assembled during the renovation by the consolidation of smaller research labs and other rooms. The renovation will also provide safe, sufficient facilities for current faculty research, will improve recruitment of new research faculty, and will provide opportunities to mentor and integrate student trainees in faculty research. The majority of the University's service area includes a rural, economically depressed region of the Mississippi Delta and Missouri 'Bootheel," in which higher than average poverty and unemployment rates, coupled with geographic isolation, limit opportunities for educational attainment and economic stability.